£600m delivery partner named for new hospital programmeA joint venture between Mace and Turner & Townsend has been picked as the Programme Delivery Partner for the £37bn New Hospital Programme.
The forecast value of the PDP contract for a six-year duration is up to £600m to April 3031. There is also an option to extend the deal for up to a further four years to April 2035.
The programme w…
Planning green light for £10bn Northumberland data centrePlanning permission has been granted for a £10bn data centre in Northumberland .
Plans from investment giant Blackstone-owned QTS will see construction of a 540,000 square metre data centre campus on the Cambois site which was originally going to be the home of the doomed Britishvolt battery plant.
The approval for the site in Cambois has…
Police arrest plant hire theft gangCheshire Police officers have arrested nine people in connection to the theft of high value construction plant and equipment from hire companies following a series of dawn raids in Lancashire on Wednesday morning.
Officers from Ellesmere Port CID, with the support of officers from The National Construction and Agriculture Theft Team (NCATT) and Lancashire Rura…
Balfour Beatty boss Leo Quinn to step downBalfour Beatty Group Chief Executive Leo Quinn will step down from the Board later this year after more than a decade at the helm.
Philip Hoare, Chief Operating Officer at AtkinsRéalis, has been chosen by the Board to succeed him and will join the group in September.
Hoare has built his 30-year career in the industry at consultant AtkinsRéalis first as…
Galliford Try upgrades target as half-year profits jump 54%Galliford Try is upgrading its profit forecast for the year after a strong first half performance saw pre-tax profit jump 54% to £20m.
A strong half of work activity across both infrastructure and building divisions saw revenue approaching £1bn at the half year to December, up 13% to £923m.
The firm is benefitting from strong positions…
Trespasser dies in crane fall at Willmott Dixon siteA man died yesterday after breaking into a Willmott Dixon site in Manchester where it is understood he fell from a crane.
Emergency services were called to the £60m Manchester Science Park on Tuesday afternoon after it was reported a man had fallen from a significant height.
A Willmott Dixon spokesman said: “We can confirm that an incident…
Ibstock pulls out of GRC cladding marketIbstock is quitting the Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete (GRC) cladding market.
The materials giant confirmed it has ceased production of GRC after the division made a trading loss of £3m last year.
Ibstock said: “The GRC business recognised a trading loss of around £3 million in 2024, reflecting acute pressure on margins in the current market…
Green light for 1,000-home Wolverhampton city centre regenPlans for a major Wolverhampton regeneration scheme of over 1,000 new homes, and 70,000 sq ft of retail, leisure and commercial space have been approved.
ECF – a joint venture between Homes England, Legal & General, and Muse – working in partnership with City of Wolverhampton Council have secured detailed planning for the first phase,…
Oval revises Manchester scheme with trio of towersDeveloper Oval Real Estate has revised plans for a major high-rise cluster scheme in Manchester doubling the number of flats to 800.
The revised Albert Bridge House project will now consist of two residential towers rising to 37 and 49 storeys and a 17-storey office block.
Planned office space has been halved compared to the previously consented…
New MD at Heidelberg Materials ContractingScott Cooper has been appointed Managing Director of Heidelberg Materials UK’s national road surfacing and contracting infrastructure business.
Prior to joining the company, Cooper was Managing Director of Transportation Major Projects and Design for Kier Group, where he was responsible for the successful delivery of a portfolio of major projects…